He was heard; and he produced before the bar of the House that insolent and unbecoming paper which lies upon our table.

It was deliberately given in by his own hand, and signed with his own name.

The Commons, however, passed by everything offensive in that paper with a magnanimity that became them.
They considered nothing in it but the facts that the defendant alleged, and the principles he maintained; and after a deliberation not short of judicial, we proceeded with confidence to your bar.
So far as to the process; which, though I mentioned last in the line and order in which I stated the objects of our selection, I thought it best to dispatch first.
As to the crime which we chose, we first considered well what it was in its nature, under all the circumstances which attended it.

We weighed it with all its extenuations and with all its aggravations.

On that review, we are warranted to assert that the crimes with which we charge the prisoner at the bar are substantial crimes,--that they are no errors or mistakes, such as wise and good men might possibly fall into, which may even produce very pernicious effects without being in fact great offences.